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Brett on "Can't schedule post on my Android"

Brett — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:39:13 +0000

I was really excited when I came across WP for Android. I have staff making Draft posts in my site, which I then want to review, change and schedule for future publishing. Doing this on my phone would be awesome.

But I can't work out how to schedule a post. Even if I change the date on the post, and then press publish, it publishes immediately. There is no option to Schedule.

I've tried changing the date and saving as a Draft first, before going back in and changing it to Publish. But something keeps changing the date back to today's date.

I've tried changing the date within the post and then selecting Published, and pressing Publish, and it publishes immediately.

I am sure I am missing something here. Can anyone help me schedule a post?

Thanks
Brett

Brett on "Can't register for this forum"

Brett — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:34:38 +0000

I tried several times to register for this forum on the android.forums.wordpress.org page. It can't be done. I enter my details and nothing happens. No email arrives or anything.

Had the sudden thought that my existing forum login (for wordpress.org) might work, so I went there and logged in. And here I am.

I tried three different browsers.

Perhaps someone can take a look into it.

pmillette on "Edit existing posts offline"

pmillette — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:46:04 +0000

Hi to all developers. Great job and I love Wordpress for Android, I use it almost every day to add new posts to my blog. It's great to be able to write a new post offline and then publish it to the blog when done. It would also be nice to be able to edit existing posts offline: I would load the posts when at home using my Wifi, edit the post during the day and the send it back and the end of the day, again using my Wifi. Just something simple, no synching, you load locally to phone, edit and then overwrite when sendig back to the blog.

Maybee this function already exists and I haven't foud it?

Thanks and continue the good work!

amyandcaitfarm on "Not able to edit, post, do anything, really..."

amyandcaitfarm — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:12:30 +0000

I've been scouring this forum and the web for some assistance. I'm traveling through South America with an Asus Eee Pad Transformer and have been trying mercilessly the past two days to update the blog my partner and I are using to stay in touch with friends and family!!
We uploaded a post three days ago successfully with the app. However, yesterday the app began acting buggy - we couldn't insert photos, we would put them in from the gallery, but then they wouldn't show up - the code would simply be "img from android device" or something, not the actual image link.
We thought it might be the internet connection as it's pretty intermittent down here, but found a stronger signal to use, still to no avail.
So, we thought we'd just give up on the photos and publish what we had. But now, everytime we try to publish, it force closes. When we even open the app, it takes a couple minutes for the menu to open, and same when we try to access the post section. We even tried saving it as a draft, yet still force close!
Let's not even begin to talk about trying to update within ANY of the browsers - none let me insert the pictures i've uploaded!! Stock browser, opera mini, dolphin, skyfire - tried them all.
We tried the app and test drove the transformer for awhile before we chose it as our main device to carry with us, but now we're beginning to regret the decision... I have installed the update (twice) and restarted, then restarted again the tablet. To be honest, it's actually worse with the update.
Any assistance would be more than appreciated as we love wordpress and don't want to have to switch to another blogging platform!!
Thank you so much.

sm3vvz on "Unable to upload full image"

sm3vvz — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:05:30 +0000

Hi!

I've my own installation of wordpress, and when I try to upload images (5mpix) via the android wordpress application it says "an error occurred when uploading media". It works fine when I upload the same image from the web interface, but not from the application. Even tried 16 mpix images via web without breaking sweat.
.htaccess says:
---
php_value upload_max_filesize 20M
php_value post_max_size 20M
php_value max_execution_time 200
php_value max_input_time 200
---

Something must be very wrong with the mobile feature "upload and link to full size image" since it works fine to upload images when you turn that feature off.

teamwalrus on "Unable to save/exit new post"

teamwalrus — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:14:14 +0000

When I go into a new post there are no buttons to exit the editing of the post.
The back button and menu button on my phone do not do anything.

- Using self hosted wordpress
- Wordpress v3.3.1
- Samsung Galaxy S2 (GT-I9100), Android v2.3.6
- Wordpress for Android v2.0.6

knittywittywoo on "problem with posting"

knittywittywoo — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:51:15 +0000

I use a Galaxy tab tablet and I have uploaded posts to wordpress for the past 9 months with no problems.
Now I have a problem I don't know how to fix.

I can ony do short posts of about 20 lines.
Once I get near to the bottom of the post box it jumps back to the top and starts writing at the end of my first sentence. I cannot get it to write at the bottom again.

How can I stop this happening?
I haven't changed any settings as far as I know.

Please help as I love the ease of posting from the tab.

Thanks in advance.x

jacksena on "Tell me best laptop security from virus."

jacksena — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:11:22 +0000

i am using Dell laptop with window vista, i looked from sometimes my laptop has hanged and show same folder copy in each window drives, i think it can be virus how to remove it plz help me ????

granskog on "java.net error"

granskog — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:02:36 +0000

Hello!
When I try to add my site to the app.
I got this error:
java.net.
UnknownHostException: Host
is unresolved:
davidsouthmountain.se:80

Why???

from/
granskog

bfindlay123 on "Drop down menus not working for android users"

bfindlay123 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:34:31 +0000

I am using the coralline theme and have seval pages accessible as pull down menus. Unfortunately I just found out that the android phones some of my students have are unable to pull them down. They either just load the parent page, or simply do nothing.

Mobile theme is on, and if I turn iPad friendly option on, the same behavior happens on my iPad. I can see the sub menus, but only the parent 'placeholder' page loads.

The site is findlayvanier.wordpress.com. If any android users could test this first on a computer browser, then on their device that would be appreciated!

The issue appears to be in the android browsers interpretation of the blog page.

I have mobile theme switched on, but that does not seem to make a difference. I don't have an android device available to troubleshoot :(

evgeniyzabolotniy on "Content is gone when hiding screen keyboard"

evgeniyzabolotniy — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:06:02 +0000

I'm using Android 4 on tablet device with software keyboard.
After entering text i must hide keyboard to be able to post message, but when i do so, all text from content field disappears.
The same thing happens if i copy text, hide keyboard, paste text into content field (which is still on a whole screen) and click back button to get to Send button. Text will disappear.
The only way i found to manage it is writing text, copying it, going back to beginning of the post process, pasting text into content field and sending it. It works, but this is not a solution....

JinHan on "A simple question about the uuid"

JinHan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:09:53 +0000

Hi guys,

This question is originally posted in the "Troubleshooting" forum, but it is actually not a trouble, but a simple question. So I post it again here, hope it is fine :P

So this question is for the developers of WordPress Android.

It is a simple question about the "uuid" used in the uploadStats() method in "wpAndroid.java".
By reading the code for the Android version of WordPress, I noticed that in the Android version, this "uuid" is just a unique ID that randomly generated and stored as the first record in WordPress’s own SQLite database on the Android device.
However, in the code of the iPhone version of WordPress, the uuid used in the same method is actually the device's uuid.

So my question is, when writing the code for WordPress Android, why the "uuid" does not use the device uuid? (I mean it can just be easily obtained by calling TelephonyManager.getDeviceId(), right?)

Is this because calling TelephonyManager.getDeviceId() will trigger the "android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" permission checking?
I mean, is it because WordPress for Android is actually trying to avoid such additional permission request when writing the code? Is it the reason why it is using a random-generated uuid instead of the real device id (such as on iPhone's version of WordPress)?

Appreciate if the original developer of that wpAndroid class could answer my question or just confirm my guessing :)

Regards,
- Jin

powerbikersbocholt on "Calendar not fully visible on phone"

powerbikersbocholt — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:15:57 +0000

Hi there,

I posted this query originally over at the wordpress.com support forums (http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/calendar-not-fully-visible-on-iphone?replies=3) and they recommended I come over here to ask.

A user of our site has reported that he is unable to view the calendar properly on his iPhone (see page: http://powerbikersbocholt.be/kalender/). This happens with Android phones as well. The phone cuts off the last three days of the week, and the calendar does not respond when he attempts to 'drag' those days into view. It is a Google calendar and we have it both inserted into the 'rittenkalender' page, and also on the sidebar so it is visible throughout the site.

Is this something I can resolve myself, or is it related to the phone itself?

Thanks!
Camilla

kihyen52 on "option for default post fornat"

kihyen52 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:08:48 +0000

Thanks for one of the most useful app in Android.

I suggest for new options for default post format.

In current version, the default setting of post format is image.
but I want to make the "default" post format to default setting of post format.

Could you add this function for next version?
thanks

CaptainVimes on "Cannot access dashboard on android app (android 2.3.5, Samsung Galaxy S2)"

CaptainVimes — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:04:12 +0000

I have installed the WordPress app on my mobile so that I could do some editing and creating whilst on my mobile, basically when I'm not well enough to use my laptop...

I logged into my WordPress site on my mobile, and succeeded in posting to the site yesterday.

However, I cannot connect to the dashboard via the mobile? Everytime I press on the "dashboard" link, it looks like it's loading up, but then it kicks me back to the log in screen and removes the password. It doesn't say that the password is incorrect, it doesn't come back with ANY error?

Considering my install of wordpress to my server has had NOTHING BUT PROBLEMS, am I to guess that the problem is with my server rather than the app?

I can't give you a link or show you the problem because I posted about my wordpress problem on the wordpress support board and I was told to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders. I did this, then found that my server will NOT let me upload the folders from the fresh WP download using filezilla.

I got annoyed and totally erased my entire public_html/forum directories, and I'm now TRYING to upload the backup that I made yesterday (thankfully!)

Once I have restored everything, and everything the server end is working again, I will retry with the app and see how I get on.

fanderzzon on "Stats login issues"

fanderzzon — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:41:52 +0000

Hi,

I've have an self-hosted blog (Link) and everything works excerpt login into stats. I've Jetpack installed and configured into my wordpress.com. When i setup my blog in the Android app I use url fiddeandersson.se and my login details.

And then I press Stats and try to enter with my login details from wordpress.com but it don't work, it says username/password is wrong. I've tried change password and setup the blog again but with a different account but without any success.

In wordpress - settings - writing I've checked the button for XML-RPC.

My device is HTC Desire S.

Towlieban on "Html bug in wordpress app for android and feature request"

Towlieban — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:03:11 +0000

I'm using the latest version of the WordPress app for Android.

I want to report a problem that only exists in the Android WordPress App.

When I enter any html code in the post editor, the < and > are removed from the post when I publish it and I have to manually edit it later from a desktop browser to fix this. I've also tried < and & gt; but the app strip them out.

Also, there 2 features that I want to request to be added:

1. Before approving a comment, please add a way to edit the comment information such as name/email/comment text

2. Before publishing a post, please add a way to preview it similar to how you can on a desktop browser

mmlisa on "adding site on samsung tablet"

mmlisa — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:19:32 +0000

I've been trying to figure out how to two other site on my WordPress app but there isn't an option for it. Can someone tell me how I can add more than one site onto the WordPress app ( tablet version)?

roddyp on "Android app gets stats for wrong site?"

roddyp — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:40:16 +0000

I started with a wordpress.com site, and then switched to a self-hosted site, with wordpress.com redirecting the old address (http://butnoidea.wordpress.com) to the new site (http://butnoidea.co.uk)

I have jetpack installed on the self-hosted site for stats. So far, so good... but when I use the android app, the stats it shows are from the old wordpress.com site instead!

Is this a configuration issue at my end? Everything else seems to work...

Wordpress 3.3.1, all plugins up to date
WP for Android 2.0.4

corvy on "XML error when uploading new post"

corvy — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:36:04 +0000

When I upload a post (image or only text, same error) I get an error message:

Post Upload Failed: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: expected ++++

Results from http://www.barmen.nu/xmlrpc.php:

"XML-RPC server accepts POST requests only."

I even tried the new version Beta 2 of the Wordpress app and it posts the same error (although in a much better interface!). The error occurs both with attachments and text posts. The strangest thing is that the posts get uploaded in any case, if I go to the blog I see the post, and if I refresh in the app I get the post both in the blog list and posted as a local draft. Seems the handshake to confirm upload success is missing.

Sometimes I get an added error of which I cannot understand. All categories on Wordpress gets reset to Unknown and I get an error in the app when I try to refresh categories. I have nailed the fix for this, and it is basically to restart the mysql server.

Just to note, I tried disabling all plugins to eliminate, and the error still happens. So now I am more or less stuck!

I am running Wordpress 3.2.1 on Gentoo Linux with Apache 2.2.20 and PHP5.3, MySQL 5.1.56. PhPinfo can be provided if wanted.

I will be happy getting developers access to debug. My email is stian at barmen dott nu. thanks!

Now I will start upgrading all gentoo packages to latest version to see if that helps ....

jhonydeck on "Drodi Justice"

jhonydeck — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:45:02 +0000

This is shooting game , i realy like , you will also like when you will play!

kstjohn on "2.0.3 much better! except for Draft list"

kstjohn — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:43:11 +0000

Just downloaded WP 2.0.3 and am happy to see the HTML editor!
While sprucing up this version to prepare 2.0.4, please fix a new issue found in this version only:
If a draft has a future date it is listed as "Scheduled" on the list of posts. This is confusing because I often start drafts that I future-date because I know they'll go live much later. At this point I can't tell the difference between a Draft and a Published item. They all say "Scheduled."

perryb on "Images not uploading to multisite blogs"

perryb — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:47:01 +0000

Apologies for reposting but my last post title was misleading (couldn't find a way of deleting).

I can't seem to upload images to self hosted multisite blogs - the app works fine for single site WP installs. Text posts work fine - I can select an image from my phone and see a thumbnail in my post but when I publish there is text but no image.

There are no error messages to indicate that anything is wrong and the images do not exceed the file size upload limits set in network admin. This holds true whether I try via 3G or wifi.

emooheo on "Failed to upload post: video"

emooheo — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:26:04 +0000

Motorola Xoom tablet. Android 3.2.

When making any post with a video, the post fails to upload.

perryb on "Images from phone gallery not embedded"

perryb — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:14:36 +0000

When I try and create a post via 3G, if I try to embed a photo or image from my phone it does not appear.

Would the problem lie with my carrier, phone or hosting set up (or is this a bug with the app)?

I have posted images when connected to wifi without any trouble (though I haven't tried this since the app had the last major update)

Roger on "Dashboard unavailable "Web page not available""

Roger — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:11:21 +0000

Using:

Android (Gingerbread) ver. 2.3.6
WordPress (for Android) ver. 2.0.3
WordPress self hosted ver. 3.3.1

All self hosted sites configured on WordPress for Android work perfectly. 3 sites do not.

The ONLY issue is with the icon for "Dashboard". When clicking it for those 3 sites, I get the following error:

Web page not available

The web page at data:text/html;UTF-8,%3Chead%3E3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%3Efunction%20submitform(){document.loginform.submit(),%20%3C/...

...and so on

I have completed the following to no avail:

Removed (deleted) all plugins and themes (only activate Twenty Eleven 1.3 and Twenty Ten 1.3).
Does not fix issue.
Completely delete and reinstall blog.
Does not fix issue.
Tested blog admin area (dashboard) in several desktop browsers as working with no issue.
Works (including dashboard) in all desktop browsers tested.
Completely remove WordPress for Android, reinstall and reconfigure (very arduous, given the number of blogs to add). Side note: It would be really to have an export and import feature for the blogs added to it.
Does not fix issue.
Cleared the cache on the default Android browser.
Does not fix issue.
Use default Android browser and Firefox (for Android), to manually log in and access Dashboard of wp-admin - success.
Tried on Wifi connection.
Does not resolve issue.

Again, the only issue therefore (so it appears) is with version 2.0.3 of Android for WordPress. (That being clicking the Dashboard icon throws the above mentioned error).

This only effects the Dashboard, all other features work without issue.

Can anyone please point me towards a fix.

mrpot on "quick video"

mrpot — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:59:38 +0000

Hi,
i try to make some test with the android app,
i have a samsung galaxy gio gingerbread 2.3.3,
my wordpress is:
Version 3.3.1
my site is hosted on aruba server in italy
when i publish one post with quick video from android app,
this was embedded with this code:

<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls"><source src="http://www.ilceramista.com/wordpressEN/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wpid-video-2012-01-09-20-50-20.mp4" type="video/mp4" />Click to view video.</video>
i cannot view this video with "chrome,I.E or firefox..ok...
in the post editor tynmce i'm select the box of the media embedded with android,
and click the icon "insert edit media elements" and i switch the type from html5 to shockwave-or quicktime-or windows or real-player---all of this work fine,....
my question is:
wich script launch the android app when insert the video?
is possible to setting up a custom default embed code?---shockwave or quicktime or anyone work fine instantly?
i think the problem is the code generated by default when i use the android app,

i hope you can understand my bugged english...
best regards,
mrpot

Mr_Christopher on "Clarify for me please, App or Browser"

Mr_Christopher — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:40:43 +0000

I use a Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1 running Android. I attempt to use the browser to post to my WordPress site but I can't "insert" photos are there are other tasks I cannot do as well.

Should i be hoping that this will be solved and I'll be able to use the Android browser to post within WordPress, or should I be looking at the WordPress applications that run on Android?

it's a bit confusing to me now, it seems making Wordpress work within the Android browser would be easier than creating a whole new app for it, but I am a total noob when it comes to WordPress and Android. thanks

Chris

centraltexascollege on "WordPress feed displaying on Android mobile phones"

centraltexascollege — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:54:39 +0000

Hello,

I've been told that the reason that my WP feed is not displaying properly on Android mobile phones is because of <dc:creator>xxxxxxxxxx </dc:creator>. Apparently, this is preventing the title of each article to show the xxxxxxx title instead of the summary title of the article.

Example:
This is what is currently display on Androids:
News
>Campus News & Events
xxxxxxxxxxxx (dc:creator)
Jan. 12, 2011 5d 12h 38m ago

This is what should display
News
>Campus News & Events
Nursing Graduation
Jan. 12, 2011 5d 12h 38m ago

Is there a way to change the <dc:creator>? I'm using WP.com.

Hopefully, this makes sense...we using Datatel MOX.

Thanks,

tbot101 on "page upload failed xmlrpc error"

tbot101 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:40:51 +0000

So I'm completely new to WordPress. I setup my site on my PC at WordPress.com and everything works great from there. On the android app tho its a different story. I can log in fine and see all my pages and posts, but when I go to edit a page, regardless of text, media, or a combination it always errors uploading with the following error code:

Page Upload Failed: XMLRPC Fault: Invalid Post ID. [Code 404]

I've searched and can't find anything anywhere.

It wouldn't be a huge deal, but I can't edit in the browser, doesn't recognize the text area as typable.